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hep-ex2026

Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, B. J. Almquist +214

We report on a search for dark matter particles interacting with xenon nuclei in an exposure of 2.84 tonne-years with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment. An extended nuclear recoil ene…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the Muon Flux at the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +209

High-energy cosmic-ray muons reaching deep underground laboratories can cause events in detectors that mimic signals expected from dark matter particles, neutrinos, or rare decays.…

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

Search for low-mass electron-recoil dark matter using a single-charge sensitive SuperCDMS-HVeV Detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +146

We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken undergr…

hep-ex2024★ 24 cited

Light Dark Matter Constraints from SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Operated Underground with an Anticoincidence Event Selection

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +139

This article presents constraints on dark-matter-electron interactions obtained from the first underground data-taking campaign with multiple SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated in t…

hep-ex2023★ 3 cited

Long-term temporal stability of the DarkSide-50 dark matter detector

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +142

The stability of a dark matter detector on the timescale of a few years is a key requirement due to the large exposure needed to achieve a competitive sensitivity. It is especially…

hep-ex2023★ 56 cited

A search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure

The LZ Collaboration, J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale…

hep-ex2023★ 4 cited

Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +142

Dark matter induced event rate in an Earth-based detector is predicted to show an annual modulation as a result of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. We searched for this m…

hep-ex2023★ 34 cited

A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +130

We present a new analysis of previously published of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood framework to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles through two inelastic scat…

hep-ex2023

Search for low mass dark matter in DarkSide-50: the bayesian network approach

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +140

We present a novel approach for the search of dark matter in the DarkSide-50 experiment, relying on Bayesian Networks. This method incorporates the detector response model into the…

hep-ex2023★ 15 cited

Large Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

T. Bezerra, A. Borkum, E. Church +19

We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and targeted modifications to…

hep-ex2022★ 38 cited

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to cm for the spin-independent interactio…

hep-ex2022★ 92 cited

Search for dark matter particle interactions with electron final states with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +140

We present a search for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/ masses whose interactions have final state electrons using the DarkSide-50 experiment's (12306 184) kg d low-…

hep-ex2022

Search for dark matter-nucleon interactions via Migdal effect with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +141

Dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei can result in the excitation and ionization of the recoiling atom through the so-called Migdal effect. The energy deposition from the ioni…

hep-ex2022★ 4 cited

Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +139

We report on the search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 10 GeV/c, from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low-radioactivity argon target by the Da…

hep-ex2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Calibrations and backgrounds for dark matter direct detection

Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw +48

Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background…

hep-ex2022★ 22 cited

Investigating the sources of low-energy events in a SuperCDMS-HVeV detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126

Recent experiments searching for sub-GeV/ dark matter have observed event excesses close to their respective energy thresholds. Although specific to the individual technologie…

hep-ex2022★ 3 cited

A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS

SuperCDMS Collaboration, Musaab Al-Bakry, Imran Alkhatib +128

In this paper, we present a re-analysis of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood approach to search for sub-GeV dark matter particles (DM) through two inelastic scattering chan…

hep-ex2020★ 10 cited

Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite

SuperCDMS Collaboration, I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral +115

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sen…

hep-ex2020★ 136 cited

Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated Above Ground

I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis +121

We present limits on spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions using a Si athermal phonon detector with a baseline energy resolution of $σ_E=3.86 \pm 0.…

hep-ex2020★ 174 cited

Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, D. W. Amaral, T. Aralis +116

This article presents an analysis and the resulting limits on light dark matter inelastically scattering off of electrons, and on dark photon and axion-like particle absorption, us…

hep-ex2020

Effective field theory interactions for liquid argon target in DarkSide-50 experiment

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +164

We reanalize data collected with the DarkSide-50 experiment and recently used to set limits on the spin-independent interaction rate of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs)…

hep-ex2019★ 74 cited

Constraints on dark photons and axion-like particles from SuperCDMS Soudan

SuperCDMS Collaboration, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki +104

We present an analysis of electron recoils in cryogenic germanium detectors operated during the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment. The data are used to set new constraints on the axioele…

hep-ex2018★ 304 cited

First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +99

We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-…

hep-ex2017★ 153 cited

Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment at Soudan

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aramaki +101

We report the result of a blinded search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the majority of the SuperCDMS Soudan dataset. With an exposure of 1690 kg days, a si…